OT: Vanilla not for embedded?! Re: Kernel 2.6 size increase - get_current()?

Mike Fedyk
2003-07-25T20:31:06Z

On Fri, Jul 25, 2003 at 05:37:39PM +0200, Ihar Philips Filipau wrote:
> P.S. Offtopic. As I see it Linux & Linus have made the decision of
> optimization. Linux after all is capitalismus creation: who has more
> money do control everything. Server market has more money - they do more
> work on kernel and they systems are not that far from developers'
> workstations - so Linux gets more and more server/workstation oriented.
> This will fit desktop market too - if your computer was made to run
> WinXP AKA exp(bloat) - it will be capable to run any OS. Linus repeating
> 'small is beatiful' sounds more and more like crude joke...
> As for embedded market - it is already in deep fork and far far away
> from vanilla kernels... Vanilla really not that relevant to real world...

Vanilla will be what people put into it. And I have seen more messages from
embedded people complaining, than actually doing and submitting patches for
merging.

So the embedded trees are a deep fork huh? Did you or anyone else do
anything to merge during 2.5?!

And now you see why there is a "deep" fork...